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Critical Question: (Entire Essay is based off of this) How do authors, Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald reveal the quality of life in “A Telephone Call” and “Babylon Revisited” to their readers.

Possible Thesis: Authors Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald have developed modernist short fiction stories, “A Telephone Call” and “Babylon Revisited”, that articulate the quality of life in their own unique ways through specific themes involving wealth, poverty, and uncertainty.

TASK:

A good way to think about this assignment is to ask a critical question of one or more texts and answer the question(s) in a sustained argumentative essay. Your thesis statement, then, should be a concise answer to your critical question and the body of the essay will serve to prove/support your thesis using textual evidence.

You should also have some relevant discussion of the literary genre or themes of your chosen texts. How do your texts align with the tenets of one or more of these genres or themes? How does the genre or theme contribute to your interpretation of the text and answer to your critical question?

Instructions for the Essay:

• Use at least two outside sources to support your understanding of the text(s)
• Explain your interpretation of one or more of the texts in a clear and thorough manner.
• Explain how you arrived at your interpretation using textual evidence and close reading to support your points.
• Have a debatable, arguable thesis statement at the end of the introduction which is original and contains your interpretation of the text(s).
• Include thoughtful discussion of at least one literary era/genre and explain how your interpretation is shaped by both the era and the tenets of the movement.
• AVOID simply summarizing the text(s).
• AVOID simply paraphrasing when using textual evidence.
• Use textual evidence to support your points and include sufficient ANALYSIS of the quotations used. Do not simply drop a quotation in your essay just for the sake of using the quotation. Make the quotations WORK FOR YOU.
• Have a CREATIVE title for your essay.
• Follows MLA Format with a header and a Works Cited page that lists all cited materials.
• Cite all in-text quotes in MLA Format, i.e. (Author’s Last Name page number if applicable).
• Be 5-6 pages in length.
  • This does not include your Works Cited.
  • Your last page of the essay needs to at least have a 5 in your header for the page number, but does not need to be a complete page.